The movie version of scientists is a lone scientist having a "Eureka!" moment in a laboratory - thanks, Archimedes. In modern times, for example, ecoterrorists attack because humanity is a plague,…

From herbicides to vaccines to pollution, there is a science consensus but there are still pockets of people who refuses to accept them. They are bolstered by disinformation campaigns. When it comes…

This is scaring so many people, but is full of mistakes and has no scientific credibility. It's written by a couple of businessmen, with a foreword by a retired admiral, and no scientific peer…

Paracelsus famously noted that the dose makes the poison. What did peasants in the 17th century understand about science that modern environmental scientists lack? Skepticism. Modern academics are…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says autism diagnoses went up 43 percent from 2010 to 2014 in New Jersey, which uses research by Rutgers University, shows a significant increase in the…

You may recall seeing public outrage over Mylan's Epi-Pen recently. The company had successfully convinced everyone that anaphylaxis was routinely killing kids with allergies and so they needed an…

A new statistical analysis in Injury Prevention found an association between county-level income inequality and the number of firearm deaths per 100,000 residents. Higher rates of firearm homicides…

In 2014, in outlets as diverse as Science 2.0, the Chicago Tribune, American Thinker, and the American Council on Science and Health I began debunking "pre-diabetes" as a fake designation for a non…

Is there something in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields that penalizes new parents? Perhaps. An analysis of longitudinal survey data from U.S. STEM professionals collected…

If you are in science media and I mention names like Bill McKibben or Naomi Oreskes, how you react to hearing those names tells me how you probably vote. Some things are that clear. And because they…

Citizen science has existed for as long as science. At one point, being an amateur was actually more prestigious than doing science as an occupation, in the same way the amateur detective Sherlock…

Academics and their conspiracy-minded followers are always the first to suggest that anyone who debunks their claims must be shills for Big Evil, but Science 2.0 gets no money from any polluter (and…

In 2007, a documentary about a 1981 game appeared. You wouldn't think a film about grown men trying to be the best in the world in a game from 1981 could be fascinating, but it is. The center of the…

Many American journalists have dispatched any pretense of objectivity, according to a new think tank report. Some of the switch away from Who, What, Where, When (Why, How) news to narrative and…

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/wkh-bwi051419.php Can wisdom be measured? Wisdom is a subjective concept - to most it is understanding that goes beyond knowledge - but a review in…

Last night I was absolutely mesmerized by observing the transit of Ganymede and Io, two of Jupiter's largest four moons, on Jupiter's disk. Along with them, their respective ink-black shadows slowly…

On Applied Epistemic Helplessness The often (always?) brilliant Scott Alexander has an essay that parallels the thesis of an essay I've been meaning to write for that last six years. It's the…

A new look at data tracked the diets, health and lifestyle habits of nearly 30,000 adults across the country for as long as 31 years has concluded that the risk of heart disease and death increases…

Health care has become political and that means everyone wants everything for little money, at least when it comes to their own treatment or those in their family. The other edge of the political…

Though every world science body sees no reason to be concerned about genetic engineering - hundreds of millions of humans and billions of animals have been fine with a gene in one plant that is…